When President Trump announced last month that America would leave the global nuclear deal with Iran and reimpose U.S. sanctions, Europe's leaders vowed to create financial mechanisms that would enable their firms to do business with Tehran and protect them from U.S. financial retaliation.
Moscow undermines OPCW efforts on Syria;
The Kremlin's opaque counterterrorism policy
Backward from spousal protections;
Protecting the Baltics from Russian cash
The coming population explosion;
A helping hand for the Palestinians;
A growing trash problem in the Pacific;
The vanishing Arctic;
The dangers of antibiotics overuse
Counterterrorism and the digital dilemma;
Cairo's new counterterrorism structure;
How al-shabaab indoctrinates
For Russians, U.S. visits get tougher;
Russia sanctions, reconsidered
Global outrage over last month’s peak to the so-called Great March of Return on the Gaza-Israel border was instant and understandable. Over 50 people died and hundreds more were injured on a single day.
Earlier this month, after experiencing a long hiatus from violent extremism, Indonesia succumbed anew to Islamist terrorism when a family of suicide bombers struck three different churches in the country's second-largest city, Surabaya.
China strengthens its hold on Philippine territory;
Beijing, Tokyo work to normalize ties
NATO, Moscow edge toward modus vivendi;
Tackling Telegram is tougher than it seems
U.S., UK issue warning over Russian hacks;
The war on Telegram commences
Increasingly, robots on the front lines;
DPRK threat triggers new missile defense focus on planes...;
...and drones;
Turkey's new underwater drone;
Understanding EMP threats;
Weaponizing ink
In official Washington, which is routinely awash in foreign dignitaries, it's all too easy to miss the comings and goings of world leaders.
Sina ban sparks social outrage;
Beijing eyes the Solomons
Pakistan's "University of Jihad"
Egypt attempts a new strategy in the Sinai;
Saudi Arabia seizes the moment against the MB...;
...and makes a move toward religious pluralism
The political left is aghast over President Donald Trump's decision last week to abrogate the Iran nuclear deal.
New U.S. sanctions begin to bite;
Russia frustrates response to Syrian atrocities
Slowing soldiers' biological clocks;
How 3D printers are increasing efficiency in weapons production;
Needed: Private sector help on AI;
China constructs hypersonic testing facility;
Loud, non-lethal lasers
Despite consuming more oil and gas than any other country in the world, the United States is on pace to become a net energy exporter before 2025.
New study takes aim at PLA corruption;
Beijing warns: be wary of foreign spies
It's official: the Iran nuclear deal is dead.
U.S. policy: Back to sanctions...;
...and plans for a broader strategy;
Meanwhile in Iran, official anger...;
...and grassroots ferment
What's more pathetic: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' latest blast of ugly anti-Semitism, or the hopes that the global community has long invested in him as a true Israeli partner for peace?
New U.S. sanctions target Russian elites;
The slow death of Russia's rural schools
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States has the highest motor vehicle crash death rate among high-income countries, with nearly 37,000 deaths annually, or about 100 per day.
The Russian threat to undersea cables;
Revealed: Russia's strategy to destabilize Ukraine
Chinese Christians take aim at the Vatican;
Monitoring China’s bathrooms
How does North Korea use cyber means to achieve its political and military objectives? Ever since the Korean War, North Korea’s stated foreign policy goal has been to reunify the Korean peninsula under its rule.
Moscow, Beijing draw closer;
Overtures, and thinly-veiled threats, toward Taiwan
On Monday, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu dramatically unveiled records detailing "Project Amad," Iran's "comprehensive program to design, build, and test nuclear weapons."
A step forward for Nord Stream 2;
Warming ties between Moscow and Doha
Fresh worries over Russian cyberwarfare;
New revelations about Moscow-Tehran ties
With more freedom to maneuver on foreign than domestic affairs, and with their eyes focused squarely on their legacies, all modern U.S. presidents have sought to craft the elusive deal that will solve a protracted global conflict.
Pentagon ponders how to nullify Russia's nuclear strategy;
The Kremlin's quiet aid to the Taliban
These days, it's increasingly clear that the Iran nuclear deal is on life support.
Russia's cyberwar against the U.S.;
A tit-for-tat on the sanctions front
Mike Pompeo should be promptly confirmed as secretary of State because he is well qualified, but also because this is an extraordinarily dangerous time for the United States to be without an effective secretary of State.
China to more closely monitor political outlook at universities;
Travel bans for troublemakers
Greater protections, less "
family planning"
Reining in China’
s military
Whatever happened to the Iranian cyberthreat? Not all that long ago, American officials were preoccupied with the growing disruptive capabilities that the Islamic Republic had begun to demonstrate on the World-Wide Web.
Chinese household debt grows;
Congress moves to limit Chinese influence in academia
A new Kremlin counterterrorism sweep;
New details in Skripal case point to Russia
China takes the lead in railgun development;
Seeking more missile defense in the Pacific;
Needed: A rulebook for cyberwarfare;
Iran's drones get an upgrade;
Up next: Robotic submarine hunters
In order to better coordinate his response to the latest developments in Syria, President Trump has cancelled what would have been his first trip to South America. Vice President Pence will now go in his stead to attend the Eighth Summit of the Americas.
The cost of the Kremlin's political meddling in Europe;
Back to official anti-Semitism
The world "should wait for our great move," said a top Hamas leader, speaking to Palestinian protestors during violent clashes with Israeli forces along the Gaza border, "when we breach the borders and pray at al Aqsa."
American forces are building military bases in Syria and providing vital humanitarian assistance to embattled minorities there, and yet President Trump is insisting that troops pull out
Skripal scandal deepens;
Fudging the numbers on Russian mortality
The new cold war between Moscow and Washington just got a little bit colder.
The Islamic Republic's war on women;
A kinder, gentler gulf posture?;
Mismanagement adds to Iran's water woes;
A different kind of insurance policy;
Iran's increasingly rickety rial